Forest Grove’s B Street Farm served as a meeting point for two cultures, when several visiting Chinese dignitaries toured the permaculture project as part of their experience as guests of the International Visitor Leadership Program.

Politics & Government faculty member and 2012 recipient of a Graves Award in the Humanities undertakes research on activism and the Olympics. His commentary has recently appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian (UK) and The Nation.

The Spirit Mountain Community Fund in Oregon has awarded Pacific University's EyeClinic Cornelius a capital grant of $30,000 to help build out a new clinic within the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center's new Wellness Center in Cornelius.